Banbury Hill


Banbury Hillfort, or Banbury Hill Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort, about south of Sturminster Newton and north-west of the village of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset, England.
It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Description

The fort is on a low hill: a single bank encloses a roughly circular area of about. The site has been affected in the past by ploughing. Where best preserved, the rampart is wide and above the interior, with an external ditch, visible in places, of width and depth.
There is an original entrance on the west side, protected by an external bank wide and high, with traces of an external ditch. This bank, branching out from the north west part of the rampart, runs south-west and then curves towards the fort, so that there is a passage into the fort from the south, at one point down to about wide.
There are no traces of remains in the interior.
The rampart has been found to be of local limestone, with some fragments of flint and chert.